Music
| author: Derrick Weston Brown, | shelved under: Poetry | | date: 2011 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: This debut poetry collection reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of an artist's life and environment, as told through a litany of forms and myriad voices. The poems represent the quintessence of urban DC life and redefine personal relationships, masculinity, race, and history. A readjustment of bite, humor, and perspective, this work channels everything from hip-hop and Toni Morrison to Snagglepuss and red giants to make way for a poetic eruption of wisdom.
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| author: Al Burian | shelved under: Writing | | date: 2010 | publisher: PM Press | | content type: book | | description: Burn Collector compiles the first nine issues of Al Burian’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine. Beginning in the mid-nineties, Burian distributed his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music scene.
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| author: Nicole Georges | shelved under: Personal Zines | | date: 2006 | publisher: Self Published | | content type: zine | | description: Personal zine in comic form about the authors life. Including themes of pets, animals, food, life, relationships, love, cats, dogs, chickens, music, working, friendship and reading.
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| author: Nicole Georges | shelved under: Personal Zines | | date: 2007 | publisher: Self Published | | content type: zine | | description: Personal zine, mostly in comic form about the authors life. Including themes of pets, animals, food, friendship, life, relationships, love, recipes, veganism, cats, dogs, ducks, music and jamming.
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| author: Joann Sfar Klezmer | shelved under: Graphic Novel | | date: 2006 | publisher: First Second | | content type: book | | description: Klezmer tells a wild tale of love, friendship, survival, and the joy of making music in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. The Baron of My Backside is perfectly content as the leader of a traveling klezmer band, until his bandmates are brutally murdered. He sets out for Odessa alone, inconsolable even after he is joined by Chava, a beautiful girl with a voice like an angel. Meanwhile, Yaacov is expelled from his yeshiva for stealing; he too makes his way to Odessa along with Vincenzo, a violinist, and Tshokola, a gypsy entertainer.
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| author: E.L. Doctorow, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1976 c.1974 | publisher: Random House Trade Paperback | | content type: book | | description: Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P.
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| author: Alexander Cockburn (Editor), Jeffrey St. Clair (Editor) | shelved under: Sex | | date: K Pres | publisher: | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: Kev Carmody | shelved under: CDs | | date: 28 April 2011 | publisher: | | content type: cd | | keywords: |
| author: Houston A Baker, Jr. | shelved under: African American | | date: 1993 | publisher: The University of Chicago Press | | content type: book | | keywords: |
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